Cinequest Film Festival - It's the not-too-distant future, 2026, to be exact. Poland enacted a law that allows police to enslave those convicted of severe crimes. While this dystopian premise of writer/director Michal Krzywicki's The Day I Found a Girl in The Trash sounds bleak, the feature oddly has plenty of uplifting moments. It's [...]

Cinequest Film Festival - Safe Space begins with a shot of a couple driving down a desert road. Suddenly, they hit a spike. This is a good indicator that nothing will go as planned and there may be some turmoil within the relationship. The feature is both an examination of relationships, specifically between couples [...]

Cinequest Film Festival - Following COVID-19, it's likely that we'll see pandemic-based films for some time. Ashgrove is another feature set during a global pandemic. What makes the film unique, however, is its deeply human story. While the pandemic is important in triggering the narrative, the film's real conflict centers on a strained relationship. [...]

Cinequest Film Festival - Imagine if you could see your life from another perspective. What if you had the chance to jump into another dimension and encounter a different you? Which life would you pick? That's partially the premise of director Alberto Evangelio's debut feature, Visitor. What starts out as a home invasion movie [...]

Cinequest Film Festival - It's 1974. Hippies talk about revolution as the country's attention shifts towards Nixon's orchestrated break-in of the DNC. 18 1/2 is a Watergate-era film unlike any that we've seen. It has the feel of a small indie film and edges several different genres without committing to one. There's something engrossing about [...]

Cinequest Film Festival - Writer/director Jack James' Wild Bones is a film that establishes its dark tone immediately. It opens with Fay (Roxy Bugler) standing in front of a window, haunted by an eerie cigarette smoking figure painted black. She also tries to do what she used to love, dance, but when that fails, [...]

Cinequest Film Festival - In writer/director Sean Perry's Dash, rideshare driver Milly (Alexander Molina) has the worst night of his life. First, he needs to unload a huge bag of cocaine in order to pay for his mistress' child. On top of that, he struggles to keep the various women he's seeing from finding [...]